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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: rosieposie on September 08, 2008, 08:08:19 PM
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I have a lovely amber glass about 3.5" high with a gold band round the base with the wording:
Teekanne-Tee Wellronommee. On one side, and Ablage Fur Tee Pompadour on the other.
My Mother-in-Law brought it back from Germany during the 1939-45 war, when she was with ENSA.
I believe it is a tea glass used in Cafés and that Pompadour was the company who supplied them to serve their brand of tea in.
I don't know anything else about this glass, and wondered if anybody could help with the name of the manufacturer.
I will put some pictures in the Glass Gallery.
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hello Rosie!
hopefully i can give you some suggestions for translation:
i think the word is: Welt-renommee - world kudos/reputation
Ablage (failing a better word) is tiny storage place
for - für
Tee - tea (of course)
Pompadour is possibly just another (more ladylike) word for
a little bag, where women used to keep things like smelling salts,
powder box and so on (named after Madame Pompadour). It
may have been in use for the word tea-bag to that time, but
that´s just a guess...
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Thanks for that Dirk, you are right, it is Weltrenommee. The patterns made it difficult to see the cross on the 't'.
There is a company in France that make tea bags, and they are called Pompadour, so I wondered if this was a manufaturers Trade name?
I am trying to post pictures but not having much success tonight! They all seem to have too many KBs!!
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More pictures posted in the Glass Gallery now!
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Pictures...
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10613
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10612
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10611
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10610
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10609
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10608
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Thank you Max....you are super :clap:....could I have done that myself??
Still on a steep learning curve!
I think I might have compressed the pictures a bit too much........have I ?
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I didn't realise, but yes they are a bit small. I just sent you an email...lol We crossed messages. :)
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http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/03057.html and some more there :)
www.teekanne.de - see Unternehmen - Historie
The glass in fact was for the used tea bag.
My f-i-l and Rolf Anders were friends in the tea business for decades, my f-i-l as import company and Teekanne as buying and processing co. I may add that the idea and invention of tea bags came from wessendorf
Anders and my f-i-l first met in London during the early Thirties during their apprenticeship tea business and tea taster....
The several Tee-Ablage glasses look very Walther to me, and I have to go and check whether at least one of mine is marked - return to you later ;D
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Wow! Thanks Pamela for all that Information......what a gem you are. :-*
What a posh 'rubbish bin'!! :o
Yours and mine look identical........So with all your family history, I feel very happy with the information.
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http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/vasen/02597.html
This and some more next to it are the vases for why I tend to Walther.
Unfortunately none of my six or seven different Tee-Beutel-Ablagen is marked - the only mark in the base is this Teekanne registered trade mark:
http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/karaffen/03058.html
at least they are all in amber, or should I say hong chai - red tea - which is black tea in chinese ;)
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Thank you again Pamela. I liked this from the start, but I like it even more now!! 8)
Was it really to put 'used' tea bags in though, or was the tea bag put in it and hot water poured onto it, just as we would do with a mug today?
It all seems too 'posh' for a mini rubbish bin! :(
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i think for a used tea-bag. any other use would demand
something like a handle, so you won´t get your hand scalded.